BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Condoms Can Cost a Week?s Wages
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
BONUS PODCAST: For the rest of August, in addition to More or Less you?ll get a brand new podcast, Economics with Subtitles. It?s your everyday guide to economics and why you should care. In this show, Ayeisha and Steve make sense of inflation. They?ll explain how hyperinflation is affecting how Venezuelans have sex, why you can?t afford a ticket to see your favourite band in concert anymore and why a sale on sofas isn?t always a good thing.
Producers: Simon Maybin & Phoebe Keane Presenters: Ayeisha Thomas-Smith & Steve Bugeja
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| 0:00.0 | Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy. |
| 0:05.1 | My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC. |
| 0:08.7 | It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, |
| 0:13.5 | moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous. |
| 0:19.1 | And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music |
| 0:21.7 | means we can tell those stories like no one else. |
| 0:24.5 | We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative. |
| 0:28.6 | So whether you want an insightful take on music right now |
| 0:31.3 | or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music, |
| 0:36.1 | check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.2 | Are you feeling lucky? Well, you should be, because this is a bonus podcast that has magically |
| 0:44.3 | appeared in the more or less podcast feed. He's Steve Bougier and I'm Aisha Thomas Smith, |
| 0:49.5 | and throughout August, you'll get our podcast in addition to more or less. It's called Economics with |
| 0:54.7 | subtitles, and it's for people who maybe want to know a bit more about economics but have |
| 0:58.9 | been put off in the past. We hope you like it. Hello and welcome to economics with |
| 1:05.6 | subtitles. Your everyday guide to economics and why you should care. I'm Aisha Thomas |
| 1:09.9 | Smith and I make podcasts about money and stuff. |
| 1:12.1 | And I'm Steve Bajer, stand-up comedian with a degree in economics. |
| 1:15.3 | I'm the only one. That's why I got this job. |
| 1:17.9 | You do economics every day. |
| 1:19.8 | When you choose a coffee shop pastry because you never quite got round to making your own musely, |
| 1:23.9 | when you confront the painful realization that Fredos just don't cost 10p anymore, when you're |
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